...number of people living below the poverty line and in social exclusion in the Union is unacceptable. Steps must be taken to make a decisive impact on the eradication of poverty'. This challenge was later taken up by the Nice European Summit meeting in December 2000, which endorsed...

...social, as well .is narrowly economic, policies. The Council meeting in Lisbon in March 2nou declared that 'steps must be taken to make a decisive impact on the eradication of poverty-'. If the Union is concerned to eradicate poverty, it is important to have a clear idea of where poor...

...central elements in the modernization of the European social model. They agreed on the need to take steps to make a decisive impact on the eradication of poverty by setting suitable objectives. They also agreed that policies for combating social exclusion should be based...

...people living below the poverty line and in social exclusion in the Union is unacceptable . . . [and that] [s]teps must be taken to make a decisive impact on the eradication of poverty."175 The "* The first recognition of the need for Member States to grant some competences to...